The Emergence Machine

Medium

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A medium is a conduit for the flow of substances within an environment, where the environment's complex network of living and non-living components influences the medium's characteristics.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “medium” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “medium”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
medium
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL4L3L2L1L0MediumChannelMaterialEnvironmentFormSubstanceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesChannel Communic…L5Communication Ch…L5Digital StorageL5Magnetic MediaL5Medium MedL5MediumL4ChannelL3MaterialL3E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Channel L3 (requires)
    A channel or material through which something is communicated.
  • Material L3 (requires)
    A channel or material through which something is communicated.

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